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Bubonic Plague 2
Number of Words: 575 / Number of Pages: 3
... lower Volga River. By early 1347 it was in Constantinople. It hit Alexandria in the autumn of that year, and by spring 1348, a thousand people a day were dying there. In Cairo, Egypt, the count was seven times that. The disease traveled by ship as readily as by land and it was no sooner in the eastern Mediterranean than it was in the western end as well. Already in 1347, the plague had hit Sicily. By winter the plague had reached mainland Italy. By January of 1348, the plague was in Marseilles, and it reached Paris in the spring of 1348. By September of 1348 the Bubonic Plague had worked its w ...
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"Biodiversity"
Number of Words: 505 / Number of Pages: 2
... mining operation that we saw in the video. While mining, Mercury was
dripping into the water. The mercury then got into the fish and into the humans
who ate the fish.
Biodiversity promotes a healthy environment. Environments rich in
biodiversity are stronger and can with stand things such as drought, disease,
and other stresses that environments that lack it cannot. In the video, during
the drought, the side of the field with a more diverse environment held stern as
the other wilted away.
Areas that are very diverse are very important to humans as well. They
provide a wide arrange of pharmaceuti ...
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Cloning 8
Number of Words: 1212 / Number of Pages: 5
... embryonic tissues that are transferred to soil, where they produce complete plants. Grafting is another method of cloning used in Horticulture. Matching cuts are made in the stems of two plants, which are then fitted together so that their transport systems are in contact. The wounded area heals, and the two stems become a single physiological unit. All the McIntosh apple trees now in use and many other fruit varieties have been derived by grafting from single ancestral trees. "Nuclear transplantation," in which nuclei from cells of one individual are transferred to unfertilized eggs whose nuclei ...
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Freedom Of Bytes
Number of Words: 1301 / Number of Pages: 5
... to buy one over the internet, yet the minute you type in your credit card number you attract people in finding that number and using it without your consent. You might be amazed at how easy and helpful sending e-mails is, yet it is also easy for someone to send you unsolicited information, which you might not be interested in and in some instances you might even have objections to it.
Since the internet is so easy, accessible and essentially unregulated, it leaves room for many controversies about the web, including electronic commerce, credit card fraud, invasion of privacy and more. By far tho ...
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Lyra-the Star
Number of Words: 606 / Number of Pages: 3
... to Orpheus who animated and inanimate objects and even the Lord of Death with his music. But most interesting of all in India it is also called Abhijit in Rg Veda and is associated with the creator. Yes, to the Hindu religion Abhijit is an infinitely important character recorded as the "the Truth of 12,000 years B.C." in the Mahabharat. Mahrshi Vyras recorded, in a section called Vana Parva, a dialog between Indra and Skandra. An excerpt from this is included as wretched attempt to waste space:
"Contesting against Abhijit, the constellation Krittika (Pliedes) went to ‘Vana' the summer solstice t ...
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Inhalents
Number of Words: 265 / Number of Pages: 1
... the purpose of reaching a high. Inhalants are legal everyday product, which have a useful purpose. Some of these substance are paint, glues, white out, air conditioning refrigerant, felt tip makers, spray paint, air freshener, butane and even cooking spray.
Inhalants can really harm the body. Almost all inhalants can cause the body to slow down. The user can suffer Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome this means that the user can die the first time he or she uses an inhalant. Inherits can effect the other part of the body like the heart, liver, kidney, brain, bone marrow and many other organs. Inhalants ...
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Kawasaki Disease
Number of Words: 2118 / Number of Pages: 8
... age it should be interpreted with suspicion. The diagnosis may not be completely accurate because there is still as of yet no definitive way to test for , only the doctor’s interpretation of the symptoms. In the United States approximately three thousand patients will be hospitalized for every year. Even with the amount of cases and the time being spent into investigating and treating the disease there are still many unanswered questions.
The highest incidence of is found in Japan. The chance of in Japanese children under the age of five is approximately one tenth of a percent. The incidence in N ...
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Through A Narrow Chink: An Ethical Dilemma
Number of Words: 1217 / Number of Pages: 5
... accomplishment. The
ethical dilemma was not explored before hand, and this to me is the great
tragedy of most scientific discovery, since I firmly believe each scientist is
responsible for that which he creates.
Djerassi does confront a few questions of ethics and morality after the
fact.
On page 61, in chapter 6, he reflects on the argument of the use of poor
Mexican and Puertorrican women for preliminary experiments. Is this just
another manifestation of exploitation of the poor?
Djerassi says absolutely not.
Yes, the poor our the initial guinea pigs for research but this is no
different fr ...
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Atomic Bombs
Number of Words: 593 / Number of Pages: 3
... Nagasaki killed an average of 70,000 people. In these two blasts, entire families perished, leaving no one to report the death until four months from the catastrophe. This has made the Atomic Bomb the most powerful weapon ever invented in mankind.
Secondly, countries that produce these bombs are harming others as well as themselves if there was war. For example, if a country fires an atomic bomb on another country, both of the countries will become affected with radiation and other nuclear gases. There is no need to produce these bombs because they are harming everybody in the world. ...
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Hepatitis
Number of Words: 1533 / Number of Pages: 6
... examples are the viruses, B and C. The B pattern of illness was recognized at the end of the nineteenth century, yet the virus itself was not isolated until 1963. One hundred and seventy six million people are carrying the surface antigen of this one virus globally, and the infection causes a vast amount of illness and death, including most of the fatal cases of liver cell cancer.3 To prevent the wide spread of this disease, a rush for vaccination in the elementary schools for children in the K-6 levels had been implemented in Canada. However, the most effective way to prevent chronic infection is ...
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